The Oregon Country
A canvas-covered wagon used by pioneers in the mid-1800s
What is a prairie schooner?
To block off
What does barricade mean?
To add a territory to one's own territory
What does annex mean?
Fortune-seeker who came to California during the Gold Rush
What is a forty-niner?
Create a complete sentences; Rancho, Ranchero
The Ranchero owned the Rancho.
An adventurer of the American West
What is a mountain man?
What is a decree?
Ranch, especially large estates set up by Mexicans in the American West
What is a rancho?
A fast growing community
What is a boomtown?
Create a complete sentence; forty-niner, boomtown, emigrant
The emigrant left Europe for a boomtown in California to become a forty-niner and search for gold.
Situation in which people from two countries can occupy an area
What is joint occupation?
A Texan of Latin American, often Mexican, descent
What is a tejano?
Rancher, owner of a Rancho
What is a ranchero?
Person who acts as police, judge, and jury without formal legal authority
What is a vigilante?
All of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, as well as parts of Montana and Wyoming.
What present day states were part of The Oregon Country?
The belief that the United States was destined by God to extend its boundaries to the Pacific Ocean
What is Manifest Destiny?
The leading planters in Northern Florida.
Who played a major role in the government and politics of Florida?
All of New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah as well as parts of Colorado and Wyoming were included.
What present day states were part of New Mexico in the early 1800s?
Person who leaves his or her country to live somewhere else
What is an emigrant?
It refers to the line of latitude Americans believed should be the nations northern border in Oregon.
What was the slogan "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" referring to?
Create a complete sentence; Manifest Destiny, Prairie Schooner
To achieve Manifest Destiny, we hopped in our prairie schooners and headed west towards the Pacific Ocean.
Sam Houston.
Who did Texas elect as their President in September 1836?
Drive the Mexican forces out of Texas, seize New Mexico and California, and finally advance into Mexico and capture the capital of Mexico City.
What 3 goals did President James K. Polk need to accomplish in order to defeat Mexico?
Sutter's Mill in 1848.
When and where was gold discovered in California?
To escape persecution and find religious freedom.
Why did the Mormons have to keep moving from one place to another?